There is evident today a permanent and uninterrupted worldwide trend to improve the quality of products. This fact influences the position of metrology in the industrial production, whereas importance of the metrology is rising continuously. Exchange of information in the framework of production technologies is being more and more important in order to ensure the specified quality of products. Just the information concerning quality of the final products as well as information about the production processes are obtained thanks to the metrology. Generally, it is possible to say that a development of the metrology involves always extension of information range about the product or it means reduction of costs per an information unit, which is obtained from the measurement.

These trends are influencing an increased efficiency of the metrology, namely its promptness, precision, safety and flexibility.

In order to obtain the results from the measurement processes more rapidly it is useful to integrate the metrology into the production processes by means of automation, predominately. The increasing requirements concerning the product quality also require a higher precision of the measuring equipment or measuring technology. These demands are affecting the methods used for evaluation of the product geometry. Such situation is typical not only in the area of macrometrology, but also in the micro- and nano-metrology.

The production technologies have to be more flexible, taking into consideration more demanding clients, as well as with regard to the request for new products and unstable market conditions. Number of the measuring methods applied in the production, together with their flexibility, is growing. The production processes can be more efficient in this way and the products can be safer, too.

The coordinate metrology applies today the new optical measuring methods, the laser trackers, the digital photogrammetry and the computer thomography. These new methods enable to perform a fast and efficient data processing. The computer tomography itself offers quite new possibilities for analysis of the whole product volume. It is possible hereby to detect the individual elements with a micrometrical precision.

Nowadays it is relevant a growth of number of the various methods that are combined into the individual measuring systems, which are called the multi-sensor measuring systems. These multi-sensor measuring apparatuses are able to measure and to test a large scale of the values, e.g. the geometrical, dimensional, mechanical, electrical optical or material characteristics.

Taking into consideration all the above-mentioned facts it is necessary to emphasize an importance of the professional education in the area of metrology not only at the technical universities but also in the commercial sector. The sophisticated measuring equipment requires the qualified personnel or operators with regard to necessity of the production quality improvement.

The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Technical University of Košice accredited the study programme “Measuring” for the 2nd degree of the university study in the academic year 2014/2015 according to the requirements coming from the industrial practice and following the topical trends in the metrology.

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